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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
Fact of the matter is that Vista is doing a lot more under the hood than any of the previous OSs did, the same as it's been with each generation.
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Should it be doing more "under the hood", though? You know what would have impressed me as a new release of Windows? If they had taken XP, dropped its memory footprint down by a third, tightened the security, cut the bootup time in half, increased the speed, increased the stability, and left the interface alone except for maybe some snazzy transparency effects. And done it in late 2005/early 2006.
We don't *need* an OS that takes up hundreds of megs of memory just to run, and we don't *need* any more "features". What we *do* need is stability, security and usability. MS should move to something like a 3 release cycle over a 6-8 year period - first release you incorporate most of your innovations, next two releases are evolutionary and are intended to streamline and stabilize the OS, not fatten it.